Shigefumi Ueda Quotes & Sayings

Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times of warmth and does not change its leaves in times of cold: it continues unfading through the four seasons, becomes increasingly stable as it passes through ease and danger. — Sun Tzu

It sucks to lose your best friend, even if only to distance. Even when it isn't really losing her at all. — Nina LaCour

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Joseph thought he knew the plants that had sought out the twitterers, and those that had risen for the wren, or a fern that turned, not to the sun, but toward the chatter of the chickadee, so quick were the petals of its song, so sharp so plentiful so light, so showy in their symmetry, so suddenly in shade. — William H Gass

The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road. — Joe Nichols

He shook his head. Everyone fears me, except you, Latro. When a man is respected, no one wants to plant a dagger in his back. When he is feared, everyone thinks upon it, and tests the point. — Gene Wolfe

Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt. — Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his. — Eric Hoffer

Not to be to be a vulgar materialist or be too reductive, but all of that was completely absent from the conversation. Instead we were told it was a "revolutionary" moment, where these new tools would inevitably displace the old media dinosaur and that things would be democratized and wasn't it great we could all collaborate on these platforms. — Astra Taylor

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — J. Budziszewski

It is among children, and as children only, that you will find your healing and true wisdom for your teaching — John Ruskin

I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path. — Jeremy Lin

The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted. — Ben E. King

The Fire Team's tanks were filled with a jellied gasoline/holy water mix: scourging and sacramental. — Nick Cutter